Scott Dennstaedt, PhD

If you are interested in hearing about the weather forecasts along the path of totality for The Great North American Eclipse of 2024, then you should check out my YouTube channel. I discuss a pro-tip in the first two videos and I have a playlist here. These will be updated daily through Friday. On Saturday I am headed down to SUN 'n FUN to set up my booth in the Innovation Showcase tent (that is air conditioned!). So if you are going, stop by and say hello in booth IS-21. I'll be doing eight presentations as well.

It's hard to see from the picture exactly where and when this is. Are you using SiriusXM or FIS-B? It could be virga if the air was fairly dry below the cloud base. It could also be ground clutter or anomalous propagation from NEXRAD. Need more info from you in order to help identify what might be going on.

That's correct...and if the code is designed properly, there are generally little issues and you get compatibility across the different platforms. For now, most browsers support PWAs, so it creates the look and feel of a native app without the costs involved.

With my PWA, I don't need any native operations like some of the heavyweight EFBs use. In fact, many apps (probably a majority of them) that you download from the App Store are just regular web apps with a wrapper.

Here's what I wrote up when I decided to launch my site as a PWA instead of a native app. You also have to deal with the orientations of smaller devices like an iPhone in both orientations. When you have a browser in landscape, the address bar takes up valuable space that you may want to utilize for other buttons/selections. https://www.avwxtraining.com/post/the-scoop-on-progressive-web-apps-pwas-ezwxbrief

What complexity are you referring to? You simply install this as a PWA and you are done. It just adds an icon to your desktop or home screen and you can launch it just like any other native app. Again, how complex is that? It's actually quicker than searching and downloading from the App Store. And when there are updates, they become available immediately and there's no need to interact with Apple or Google to get those updates Again, I see that as "less" complex, not more.

Read up about PWAs. You can use the site in the browser, but why not take advantage of the PWA so that the space on the device can be optimized?

The AWC doesn't have a native app that you will find in the Google Play or App Store. It's a progressive web app like I use for my site. PWA or not, their site is horrible on portable devices like the iPhone. It crashes way too often and just is hard to navigate.

The prog charts are expected to remain. However, even if they do, the WPC will have them since they are the organization that generates them. I import the WPC progs into my app since they are updated more frequently then the ones at the AWC.

That’s a progressive web app, like I have with EZWxBrief, not a native app.

With this new site, the AWC will be eliminating (or has eliminated) much of the "static" imagery. Right now, the static imagery being kept for a while is: G-AIRMETs SIGMETs WPC Prog charts SigWx charts Icing (CIP/FIP) Turbulence (GTG) GFA static images (under /gfa/plot on the legacy website) B&W Fax charts Static images going away soon/now: Lowest freezing level from the RAP TCF, eTCF, ECFP RAP/NAM Wind/Temp graphics TAF plots PIREP plots METAR plots Satellite regional plots Vis/Fog satellite images Radar regional plots RCM radar plots Of course, some of this imagery is encapsulated in the interactive map...which on my iPhone crashes every time when doing a pinch to zoom out gesture. The graphics section is really hard to use. Takes many clicks to get to the images you want to see without a lot of scrolling up/down...pretty much unusable. I will keep as many of the static images available on my site until they turn off the production of those...then I will build my own.

Ah, okay. You must be talking about some other app. I searched on the Google Play and App Store and did not see any downloadable apps for aviationweather.gov. Nothing that I can find on aviationweather.gov either to indicate there was a *native* app. A progressive web app (PWA) for sure, but not a native app for aviationweather.gov. Edit: Just checked with the folks at the AWC and there's no native app on the Google Play or App Store.

When you say downloaded the app, do you mean from the App Store or Google Play store?

Like to know what you think. I am having a difficult time using it on my iPhone...it crashes most of the time when I zoom out on the map. Both Chrome and Safari. The static imagery page is almost unusable. You have to constantly scroll up/down to choose and view the image you want to view.

Not a fan of his videos. He posted his probable cause to a fatal accident of a Baron near St Louis in January 2022 that was discussed in this thread. He was very adamant that this was an icing accident even though the freezing level was comfortably 4,000 ft above the altitude where the aircraft first departed controlled flight. Gryder even suggested in the initial video (that I believe was quickly deleted/replaced) that it was due to freezing drizzle when no freezing drizzle was reported anywhere near the area. He jumps to conclusions and fails to consider facts that are indisputable. Here's my analysis of the weather for this accident. https://www.avwxtraining.com/post/initial-weather-analysis-of-a-fatal-baron-accident-west-of-st-louis It's funny when you get his lackeys that like to pile on without carefully considering the facts...here's one comment from one of them... "Super detailed examination of weather data from a station 100 miles away. Maybe the next time a plane takes off into freezing drizzle, the geniuses at avwxtraining can put together another in depth analysis of why that plane should not have encountered icing...maybe they can make a presentation at the funeral. I'm not trying to be rude, or discount the data, but I just don't see how anyone can say it's too early to speculate a cause, and in the same breath rule out icing....when all the evidence (ring camera video, crash site, special weather report) all indicate icing." Geesh. They like to attack the person since attacking the indisputable data isn't an option. The accident had nothing to do with icing as I had concluded a few days after the accident. When you Google the guy, it's amazing how many times he's been sued or in trouble with the law. One thing is for sure, he's got a loyal following.